Gwydion_Frost
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Here's the situation, with as much detail as possible...
I got out of the service, and returned to Vermont with a pregnant wife back in 1989. 2 months after having the child, my wife left, taking the child with her.
My ex-wife has a 10 year old divorce decree and court order that demands I pay $300.00/month child support. This divorce decree was issued in Texas, of which I've never lived, but she and the child in question were there at the time. I was not present during any of the settlement, and she saw that the settlement was done using our taxes from when I was in the service, using financial information that was nowhere near accurate.
Shortly thereafter, we lost track of each other. There was NO contact, whatsoever, between any of the people involved during this time period (10 years).
Approximately one year ago, I recieved a phone call. It was her. Her new military husband and her were moving to NY state. Did I want to establish contact with the girl who was giving her mom hell for her not knowing who I was?
I convinced her to let me have a visitation with the child this past summer, and during this time, I had a paternity test done. When my ex found out about this, as I had done it without her consent, she immediately filed to collect the child support from the state of NY where she now is a resident, with the child.
In all this time, she never pursued this....until now, and I have NEVER PAID ONE PENNY towards this child, or the court order.
The test results indicated that the person reading this post has more genetically in common with the child than I do. I called her, and informed her of the results. She claimed she knew that already, and had the child recite in the background a little mantra over the phone: "Eric is my biological father, you are my legal father, Andrew is my step father." So, in essense, she has filed for collecting child support on a child she knew was not mine.
The state of NY contacted the state of Vermont, where I reside, and insisted on collecting the debt. The state of Vermont insisted I pay it. I showed them the test results, and the office of Child Support has indeed acknowledged the certified test results as being valid, and that I am not the father, and even went so far as to forwarding a copy to the NY state office as well.
So, what is the problem? Both states are still persuing the case, because they are following the court order they are mandated to uphold. The state of Vermont has claimed it does not have jurisdiction on the order. The Child Support office in NY claims it cannot do anything about the order other than enforce it, and that the order is not theirs either, so there is nothing they can do about it.
So, my question is this....how can I get one of these states to actually claim this order as their jurisdiction before they begin to rob me blind for a bastard child that is someone elses responsibility? I have all the documentation to show that this is a bogus case, but I do not have a lot of money to hire a lawyer. I know that all this will take is getting these facts and the paper in front of a judge, and the case will be dismissed, but neither state seems interested in telling me HOW I may do so...
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated, so I may dedicate my mind and thoughts on my new bride and my new son, who actually DOES belong to me.
I got out of the service, and returned to Vermont with a pregnant wife back in 1989. 2 months after having the child, my wife left, taking the child with her.
My ex-wife has a 10 year old divorce decree and court order that demands I pay $300.00/month child support. This divorce decree was issued in Texas, of which I've never lived, but she and the child in question were there at the time. I was not present during any of the settlement, and she saw that the settlement was done using our taxes from when I was in the service, using financial information that was nowhere near accurate.
Shortly thereafter, we lost track of each other. There was NO contact, whatsoever, between any of the people involved during this time period (10 years).
Approximately one year ago, I recieved a phone call. It was her. Her new military husband and her were moving to NY state. Did I want to establish contact with the girl who was giving her mom hell for her not knowing who I was?
I convinced her to let me have a visitation with the child this past summer, and during this time, I had a paternity test done. When my ex found out about this, as I had done it without her consent, she immediately filed to collect the child support from the state of NY where she now is a resident, with the child.
In all this time, she never pursued this....until now, and I have NEVER PAID ONE PENNY towards this child, or the court order.
The test results indicated that the person reading this post has more genetically in common with the child than I do. I called her, and informed her of the results. She claimed she knew that already, and had the child recite in the background a little mantra over the phone: "Eric is my biological father, you are my legal father, Andrew is my step father." So, in essense, she has filed for collecting child support on a child she knew was not mine.
The state of NY contacted the state of Vermont, where I reside, and insisted on collecting the debt. The state of Vermont insisted I pay it. I showed them the test results, and the office of Child Support has indeed acknowledged the certified test results as being valid, and that I am not the father, and even went so far as to forwarding a copy to the NY state office as well.
So, what is the problem? Both states are still persuing the case, because they are following the court order they are mandated to uphold. The state of Vermont has claimed it does not have jurisdiction on the order. The Child Support office in NY claims it cannot do anything about the order other than enforce it, and that the order is not theirs either, so there is nothing they can do about it.
So, my question is this....how can I get one of these states to actually claim this order as their jurisdiction before they begin to rob me blind for a bastard child that is someone elses responsibility? I have all the documentation to show that this is a bogus case, but I do not have a lot of money to hire a lawyer. I know that all this will take is getting these facts and the paper in front of a judge, and the case will be dismissed, but neither state seems interested in telling me HOW I may do so...
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated, so I may dedicate my mind and thoughts on my new bride and my new son, who actually DOES belong to me.